ECCV 2018 Daily - Tuesday

We speak to Nanneke Zelle , a Marketing Executive (EMEA & APAC) at Samasource , which is exposing at the ECCV 2018 Expo. Samasource delivers training data services for experts . It offers video and image annotation services, providing affordable but high-quality training data at scale. Nanneke tells us more: “ What we provide is a fully managed service with a technology platform as well as human labellers. We have our own dedicated workforce and delivery centres in Kenya and Uganda, so we combine the best of both worlds. We have semi- automated annotation of images and video, but also for the more complex tasks we have our workforce who can make sure that we have the accuracy that people are requesting from our data .” Daily Tuesday 11 EXPO: Samasource 5 Samasource just launched video object tracking as part of its toolset. It is also finalising 3D point cloud annotation , something a lot of its potential clients – particularly in the autonomous vehicle space – have been requesting. The first demos of that are now available and looking really interesting. The company’s headquarters are in San Francisco , but it operates globally with offices in the Hague and Nairobi. This year is a special one for Samasource as it is celebrating its 10th anniversary ! What does Nanneke think is the secret of its success? “ I think the main reason why people want us is just to have affordable quality and skill. We do that for many of the leading high-tech and automotive companies, as well as e-commerce like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook. If there’s one thing that I’d like to emphasise it’s the way that we track quality. ”